Investigating Awareness and usage of Electronic Resources by the Library Users of Selected Colleges of Solapur University
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The study investigated the use of electronic resources/information by library users in selected colleges of Solapur University. Specifically, to investigate the awareness and level of use of electronic resources; perceived reliance, benefits and impact of use of electronic resources on the research activities. The research design for the study was a survey. Questionnaire schedule was used to collect data from 1022 library users from selected colleges of Solapur University. The result revealed that preponderance of users from aided 33.51 Self financing 26.10 Library once in three days. While analyzing the entire college libraries regarding the frequency of visit, users gave first preference to once in three days i.e. 27.2 Aided Colleges 38 Education colleges 53.2 1-2 hrs in libraries and 40.8 and in the device usage (33.9 device for accessing the e-resources. It is noticeable that 24.7 acknowledge from Aided Colleges know about the services of the Library from website but in Self Finance Colleges 8.5 aware about the services from the friends it is observed that most of the web technologies are not used by the mainstream of the users due to lack of awareness, training etc.
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